Indirect Tax (VAT) Senior Manager

Job description / Role

Based in KSA, as a VAT Senior Manager, you'll join a globally integrated team helping leading organizations to move goods and services around the world more effectively. You'll combine your technical skills and practical experience across industries and geographies to provide tailored advice to clients. This will include identifying risk areas and sustainable planning opportunities for indirect taxes throughout the tax life cycle. You'll advise clients on VAT treatment of new and complex transactions and help resolve classification or other disputes and issues with the authorities. Youre proactive, pragmatic and integrated strategies will help our clients achieve their potential in today's global environment.

Client responsibilities:
- Work effectively as a member of a worldwide network of professional advisors, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
- Collaborate with a team of VAT professionals to combine diverse cross-border transaction experience with local tax knowledge across a broad spectrum of industries
- Participate and assist in preparing for meetings with management teams
- Assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
- Build strong internal relationships within the VAT practice, Indirect Tax and across other service lines

Technical responsibilities:
- To build a deep understanding of the Gulf Corporation Council ("GCC") Customs Law and its practical application across the GCC member states
- To understand and apply the regional Free Trade Agreements
- To understand and apply key customs concepts such as valuation, classification and origin
- To identify and discuss VAT considerations for clients to be aware of in their outbound investments
- To engage with colleagues in overseas offices to deliver VAT advice in respect of global jurisdictions
- To prepare for the potential introduction of VAT in the GCC and to discuss with clients how this may impact them
- To work with internal teams to provide indirect tax expertise for audit and transaction projects

People responsibilities:
- Help people to develop through effective supervision, coaching and mentoring of staff
- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
- Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting, retaining and training customs and international trade professionals
- Maintain an educational program to develop personal skills on an ongoing basis
- Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Requirements

- A bachelor's degree in accounting, actuarial science, business, finance, human resources or a related field (MBA, Masters of Tax, JD and LLM a plus) with strong academic credentials
- ACA/CA/ Law qualification / CTA (or equivalent tax qualification)
- A Senior Indirect Tax Professional with at least seven to ten years experience
- Experience working for a Big 4 accounting firm is preferred. However, we will consider candidates with from law firms or with relevant industry experience.
- Customs duty advisory experience is preferable but we will also consider candidates with VAT/GST advisory experience

If you have solid Tax experience in implementing VAT, ideally from Big4 or Industry please apply now!

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